Artisan on BBC's Money For Nothing
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
From 2017 to 2020 I appeared in 3 Series of BBC's Money for Nothing program, where I worked as an Artisan who would upcycle random discarded items that the presenter rescues from a public refuse site. The item would be brought to my workshop where I would assess / restore and usually turn it into a Nixie Clock. The item was then sold and the profit made went back to the person who originally discarded the item.
It was quite a creative experience as there was no real brief as to what to do with the items. As I make a lot of Nixie Clocks then I naturally converted what I was given into clocks, but there was a wide range of items and each one needed to be dealt with differently. I think my personal favourite was the map I made out of a load of discarded computer circuit boards - the clock I added was incidental, but the overall finished Item proved to be very popular.
Skills Involved:
- Restoration / Preservation of existing items.
- Creativity as to what to do with them!
- Electronics / Arduino programming.
- Laser cutting / 3D printing.
It was a wide range of varied work and always interesting, as an Artisan on the program I genuinely never knew from one project to the next what I was going to be presented with!
